Sometimes you watch Obama and think “is he smarter than me? Is he playing some deep game that I don’t understand?” Trust your instincts; you understand perfectly well, but he is not terribly bright.

That was certainly the case with his bizarre threat to veto the payroll tax entension if it allowed the Keystone pipeline, as our good friend Allahpundit explains:

The politics were poisonous: Not only did it give the GOP an opening to seize the mantle of job creation, it pitted labor against Obama and the greens — and on top of all that, a veto would have meant torpedoing a tax break for the middle class, which he was never going to do with an election less than a year away.

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